Stones of Erasmus — for Teachers, Writers, & Philosophy Sprinkles Makers!

Hi, I’m Greig — welcome! Here you’ll find sharp writing, creative ideas, and standout resources for teaching, thinking, making, and dreaming in the middle and high school ELA and Humanities classroom (Grades 6–12).

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Showing posts with label adolescents. Show all posts

Showing posts with label adolescents. Show all posts

30.1.26

Story Time: Emotional Support Pickles and Chickens in the Classroom

What if classroom management didn’t start with charts and systems — but with something soft, weird, and surprisingly effective? Meet the emo...

26.10.25

Finding Purpose: How I Stay Creative Without Burning Out

Hey y’all 💭 Feeling the Sunday scaries and thinking about what keeps me grounded lately. Erik Erikson talks about generativity— that stage ...

12.3.24

Energize Students with Quick Activity: Critical Thinking & Movement for Engagement

Revitalize your classroom dynamics with an interactive activity that boosts student engagement and fosters critical thinking. Discover how p...

21.7.23

Revitalizing High School Reading Programs: Diversifying Book Selections for Engaged Learning

Read and write for pleasure. For the past three years, I’ve had the honor of leading the summer reading program at my school. This experien...

6.4.23

The Ineluctable Bond of Two Boys Broken: Movie Review of Close (2022)

In this post, I write a spoiler-y review of the 2022 Belgian film Close . This review is meant for after viewing the film. Image Credit: Dia...

5.6.19

Short Film Review: Reckless (2013)

The Short Film "Reckless" - 2013 (22 minutes, in Norwegian with English subtitles) The 2013 Norwegian short film ...

4.3.18

Book Review: Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne

Absolute Brightness is a young adult novel. Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne Paperback, 352 pages Published May 31st, 2016 by Feiw...

28.11.10

Gay Rights and Teen Suicide: A Polemic

Why Tyler Clementi’s Death is a Hate Crime Tyler Clementi, a gay college student, committed suicide by jumping off ...

21.10.10

5 Provocative Texts for the Precocious Adolescent Reader

1 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov The novel tells the story of Humbert Humbert, Lolita, the girl he travels the countr...

28.4.10

A Snapshot of the Adolescent Reader Today in 2010

Young people read more across different types of genre and content I asked several young people what they like to read and how often th...

23.4.10

In Memoriam: Mo

I taught a boy named Mo. He was fourteen years old when he died. This post is in his memory. A young man in our theater troupe died a...

21.3.10

Poem: Test Anxiety

photo credit: trainsignaltraining his face flushes rust pen to paper smooth his face squished, concentrated in the morning, before ...

9.11.09

Gilgamesh and the Search for Meaning in a, "I love you, man!" kind of way

My colleague and friend, Bonnie, asked me a rhetorical question once when I worked at the public library, “Who, Greig, would want on their ...

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